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CHINESE CRISIS IS RAPIDLY
CLEARING UP
THE GERMAN FLAN
Conger Is Instructed to Insist on
Severe Punishment of the
Guilty Parties
Washington D C Special Propo
sitions of a far reaching character con
cerning China are being presented in
rapid succession to this government
The state department had no sooner
disposed of one of these propositions to
day by delivering a response to the
German government than it was con
fronted by an even more important pro
position submitted by the French gov
ernment and within half an hour for
mally seconded by the Russian govern
ment
The answer to Germany coverel the
subject of punishing Chinese offenderes
and made known that the United
States had instructed Minister Conger
along the lines suggested by Germany
These instructions look towards secur
ing the names of persons deserving
chasitsement also whether the pun
ishments accord with the gravity of
the crimes committed and finally in
what manner the United States and
other powers are to be assured that
satisfactory punishment is inflicted
Aside from these specific purposes of
the note it is regarded as important
chiefly as establishing the most satis
factory relations between the govern
ments at Washington and Berlin
FRANCE AND RUSSIA
The Franco Russian proposal takes a
tnuch broader scope and submits a pro
gram under which the negotiations for
a complete settlement can be carried
forward The French charge M Thle
oault handed the proposition to Sec
retary Hay Shortly after noon and held
a brief conference concerning it
Half an hour later M de Wollant the
Russian charge arrived at the state de
partment and handed to Mr Hay a
note expressing Russian approval of
the propositions just submitted by
France Mr Hay gave no formal an
swer to the two communications as
hey will go first to the president at
Canton
The Franco Russian proposition is
under four heads namely
First punishment of the guilty par
ties second interdiction of the ship
ment of arms into China third pay
ment of indemnity to the powers and
fourth sufficient guarantees for the
future-
In addition a suggestion is made for
the establishment of a permanent lega
tion guard at Pekin for the razing of
the Taku forts and for the mainten
ance of a line of communication be
tween Pekin and the sea
The impression here in advance of
action on the propositions by our gov
ernment is that they contain nothing
essentially unfitting them to be sub
jects of consideration in a final settle
ment The difficulty which is likely to
arise lies in the placing of proper limi
tations upon the scope of each head
This is particularly true of the subject
of guarantees and perhaps of that of
indemnity Still as already suggested
each is undoubtedly a most proper sub
ject for discussion when the final nego
tiations are reached and therefore M
Delcasses broadest propositions which
time in reducing
are likely to consume some
ducing them to ultimate and binding
form may -be said to have a fair re
ception awaiting them
AVOID GETTING FOOTHOLD
As to the interdiction of arms the
state department already has intimated
that there may be a question as to its
wisdom and there is reason to believe
Also that Germny will not view that
particular feature with approval But
there appears to be good reason to ex
pect that a middle ground will be
reached by confining the interdiction ct
arms to a specified period possibly to
be fixed by the time required by China
within which to pay the indemnity The
chief objection to the proposition is in
its being permanent in its presentform
What the United States government
particularly desires to avoid is entering
Into an agreement that leans in any
manner toward the maintenance of a
foothold on Chinese soiiand if the other
7ropositions relative to the mainten
ance of a line of free and safe com
munication between Pekin and the sea
and the legation guards can be modi
fied in the direction of temporary ex
pedients they will be more likely to
receive the support of our government
It is apparent from the complexity of
the latest Franco Russian proposal that
the phase of negotiation thus initiated
Avill take some time to dispose of
REEDY TO GERMANY
Following is the text of the American
reply to the German note
The secretary of state to the im
oeriai German charge
Memorandum in response to the in
quiries made of the secretary of state
October 2 1900 by the imperial German
charge daffaires touching the Chinese
imperial edict in regard to the punish
ment of Pririce Tuan and other high
Chinese officials-
The Chinese minister communicated
to the secretary of state on the 2d
Inst a telegram received by him from
Director General Sheng conveying the
Import of an imperial edict dated Sep
tember 25 1S0O by which the degrada
iion and punishment of Prince Tuan
and other high Chinese officials Is da
creed
The government of the United State
Is disposed to regard this measure as a t
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nese government to satisfy the reason 1
able demands or tne toreign powers tur
the injury and outrage which their le
gatlons and their nations have suffered
at the hands of evil disposed persons in
China although it has been thought
well in vieyv of the vagueness of the
edict in regard to the punishment
which some of the inculpated persons
are to receive to signify to the Chinese
minister the presidents view that it
would be most regrettable if Prince
Tuan who appears from the concurring
testimony of the legations in Pekin to
have been one of the foremost in the
proceedings complained of should es
cape such full measure of exemplary
punishment as the facts warrant or if
Kang Yi and Chao shu Chiao should
receive other than their just deserts
CONGER INSTRUCTED
With a view to forming a judgment
on these points the United States min
ister in Pekin has been instructed to
report whether the edict completely
names the persons deserving chastise
ment whether punishments proposed
accord with the gravity of the crimes
committed and in what manner the
United States and the other powers
are to be assured that satisfactory pun
ishment is inflicted
It is hoped that Mr Congers replies
to these interrogatories will inform the
government of the United States in the
opinion which it now shares with the
imperial German government that the
edict in question is an important ini
tial step in the direction of peace and
order in China
LOOK FOR EARLY PEACE IN CNINA
Officials Think Germanys New
Terms Will Lead to Settlement
Washington Special All signs now
point to a harmonious settlement of the
Chinese trouble The offer which the
German emperor makes Emperor Ku
ang Hsii to place the troops under Field
Marshal Waldersee subject to such or
ders as may be necessary to guarantee
him full protection should he return to
Pekin is considered Important by ad
ministration officials It should have
the effect of sustaining the Chinese em
peror in his present conciliatory course
and assure him of the support of a
powerful force should Prince Tuan orj
other anti foreign leaders attempt to
stir up a revolution to protect them
selves against the recent imperial edict
ordering them before a court for pun
ishment
From an administration point of view
few obstacles remain in the way of a
speedy settlement Some concessions
may be necessary before a common pol
icy can be adopted but all nations that
participated in the relief of Pekin show
a disposition to be reasonable and
make them Consideration -of the new
propositions submitted by Germany and
France will be given as soon as the
president reaches Washington The of
ficials do not conceal the fact that they
had feared that Germany contemplated
delaying adjustment af the entire Chi
nese question in the hope of obtaining
territorial reparation for the murder of
her minister This apprehension has
been largely dissipated by the new
suggestions advanced They are in line
to a great degree with the views of
this government It is understood to
be the purpose of this government to
take advantage of the renewal of the
concert between the nations to formu
late a method of settlement of the en
tire Chinese Question
PROTEST AGAIHST WITHDRAWAL
American Citizens at Tien Tsin
Want Army to Stay
Tien Tsin Special Via Shanghai
At a meeting of American citizens
at Tien Tsin the following resolution
was adopted
We citizens of the United States
deplore the contemplated withdrawal of
a large part of the United States troops
in North China We feel the work of
the allied armies is far from accom
plished and the refusal of the Ameri
can government to take part therein is
sure to be regarded by the allies as an
unworthy act and by the Chinese as a
sign of indifference We urge our
ernment to carry to an end the work
it has so honorably and efficiently be
gun and to maintain a sufficient force
here to secure the protection of Amer
ican mercantile and missionary inter
ests until a settlement of the present
trouble is accomplished
MORTON ATTACKS BRYAN
Says Democratic Leader Is Head
of Only Real Trust
Nebraska City Neb Special In
the number of the Conservative which
appears today J Sterling tMorton the
editor answers Bryans speech on the
starch trust made in this city Septem
ber 26
Morton says in part There is not
now in Nebraska City or elsewhere in
the United States such a trust either
in starch sugar salt soap or anything
else perhaps except in free silver or
ganizations which have combined in
a trust of candidature to prevent com
petition 111 UlllUC M
No combine or trustTh commerce
has gone so far managed so adroitly
and succeeded so well as the Bryan
trust in nominations which began bus
iness at Sioux Falls held a street fair
convention at Kansas City and a car
nival at Topeka
The republican territorial convention
of New Mexico nominated B S Rodey
of Albuquerque for delegate to con
gress
THE PARTY OF THI
COUNTRY Bi
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SHOTS
To the American people I would
say the chains are now being forg
ed intended for our hands Will
we wait the coming of our jailers
Will we wait till we are tied hand
and foot and cannot help ourselves
Will we not realize the danger and
take warning in time To the in
tended victim the crouching pan
ther gives warning by eyes and
posture of its coming leap So are
we warned Monarchy stoops to
spring Cold pitiless Monarchy
that would pull over the form of the
republic the winding sheet of death
Its god is Mammon and it seeks to
enslave mankind God forbid that
you intend to supinely permit the
act Babes now in their mothers
arms are in your keeping Will
you meet to consult for the com
mon good Will you follow chosen
leaders that union system organ
ization momentum and success
may be given to our cause Or
will you join the herd that knows
only self that brings disunion and
distraction and a hell on earth The latter are limbed as human beings
No You will do your
creeping things
ings but otherwise are wormy
partl Each boy each girl each man each woman will be like heroes in
the strife
I believe that Mr Bryan will carry this year states which even his
most enthusiastic supporters hardly dream of his carrying The condi
tions closely parallel those in 1892 when Mr Cleveland swept the coun
try in a way that amazed even his campaign managers But should this
be so the democratic party ought not to lose sight of those great west
ern agricultural commonwealths in which the movement toward radical
and progressive democracy had in fact its inception and to which the
nation must turn in future years for any effort to counteract the nar
row reactionary and machine made views of too many of our eastern city
democratic organizations I believe that if the democratic party is to be
come a party of progress and reform it must shake off the idea of holding
to the cities as a source of strength and must be what the republican
party was in the days of its power and its glory in the days of Lin
coln the party of the farmers and of the country districts
WILLIS J ABBOTT
Manager Democratic National Press Bureau
There is no proposition in politics clearer than the above statement
Thus it is shown that the responsibility of preserving our form of gov
ernment and of advancing the welfare of the nation in a safe and sub
stantial way so that all our people my prosper rest first of all with the
farmers and the people in the country districts
A few years ago when the Farmers Alliance was an active factor
in public affairs and the farmers of the country districts with their
wives their sans and their daughters were reading and were holding
nightly meetings in red school houses on ten thousand hills they caused
of thenation to radically change and now
ed the tide of political thought
the great democratic party is forced to seek aid and comfort at their
hands The great mass of the common people will cheerfully respond to
this appeal for help and no doubt success will be achieved at the polls
in November
But for the immediate present while the battle wages the fiercestand
for the future when our strongest and best equipped men in all walks
of life are to be put on duty in the wonderful reconstruction era of
our government it is plainly to be seen how necessary it is to be well and
thoroughly informed
Nearly all of the worlds greatest men were those who had just a
little schooling They had only passed through the primer grade and
thus with some foundation to build upon they made themselves leaders
in every calling which man has filled
Those who desire to put themselves at perfect ease when in the so
ciety of those who intelligently discuss the great political problems of
the age and who desire to equip themselves to become a match for any
man who may issue a challenge that matchless book Coin on Money
Trusts and Imperialism is recommended by all the great thinkers and
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plain yet so entertaining and forceful as to thoroughly qualify every
reader to heed the admonition of the poet who wrote
In lifes broad field of battle
In the bivouac of life
Be not like dumb driven cattle
Be a hero in the strife
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THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK
The Republican Managers Facing
a Serious Situation
Chicago Special Republican lead
ers are in a distressed state of mind
bordering upon despair over the re
cent closing of mills and factories and
reduction of wages in other manufac
turing establishments in and near Chi
cago
Coming on the heels of alarming dis
closures concerning the situation in the
Pennsylvania coal region the Hanna
Payne syndicate is almost ready to
throw up its job in despair Several
leading republicans declare openly that
the events of the last week have ut
terly lost to McKinley the labor vote
of the country
THOUSANDS OUT- OF EMPLOY-
MENT
Within the last four days one- great
manufacturing plant in Chicago has
closed its doors indefinitely throwing
900 skilled mechanics cut of employ
ment A portion ofanother plant has
suspended work rendering S00 men
idle while in a third 3000 men have
been laid off and the wages of the
remainder reduced from 15 to 40 per
cent
Nine hundred men are made idle by
the closing of the Siemens Kalske
electric plant in Grant a Chicago su
burb
The men who have been thrown rut
of employment say that the condition
has been forced through the sale of
the works to the General Electric com
pany Officials assign the closing of
the factory to several causes principal
among which is labor difficulties They
say they cannot pay reasonable wages
and compete with eastern factories
The plant was chartered in- 1895 with
1300000 common and 700000 preferred
stock Willard T Black the secretary
nd treasurer-of- the company said
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If Bryan is elected the factory will
never start up
A CUT THROAT GAME
The Deering Harvester company of
this city a member of the Harvester
trust has reduced Its working forre
from 7000 to 3000 men The wages of
those retained have been reduced from
15 to 40 per cent The wages of 200
finishers were reduced from 450 per
day to 225 per day
The president of the Deering com
pany is a member of the board of
trustees of Northwestern university
and recently took a conspicuous part
in forcing President Henry Wade Rog
ers to retire from the institution be
cause he declared himself- opposed to
trusts and imperialism
On Saturday the plate and rail mills
of the Illinois steel plant at South Chi
cago were closed down until after
election and possibly indefinitely
Eight hundred men are left idle The
mills belong to the Federal steel trust
Here are 5700 men thrown our of
employment in less than a week at
the dictum of three trusts and labor
ing men are wondering what will next
occur One thing is certain They can
neither be coaxed nor bullied into vot
ing for McKinley
It is reported that in Russia a special
harness has been contrived with a
wire connected with a small electric
battery and this is put on horses diffi
cult to manage A slight shock is
stated to have not only the effect or
rousing the animal to the required brisk
pace but of generally benefiting hi
health
The freshman class which nters thr
university of Chicago October 1 wil
undoubtedly be the largest on record
The dormitories are turning away rocn
seekers and the rush is startling to fi
up classes The freshmen last yea
numbered500
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CONVENTION OF DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL CLUBS
MR BRYAN SPEAKS
the Support of Threatened
American Principles
down the flag
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Augustus Thomas the playwright of
New York made an address after
which the committee on resolutions
submitted its report The resolutions
commend the Kansas City platform de
claring a democratic club should be
organized in every precinct in the na
tion appeal to every democrat to
pledge himself to win one vote for the
party declaring the evidence that thf
great corporations are endeavoring to
control the votes of their employes is
too plain to be denied condemn the
present administration for its flagrant
violation to enforce the federal ants
trust statute denounce the adminis
tration for permitting Lwo i epublc
in South Africa to be destroyed with
out a word of sympathy condem
failure to vigorously prosecute the mer
connected with the Cuban postal fraud
urge that all American institutions are
in danger proclaim sympathy with the
coal miners of Pennsylvania in their
stand against the anthracite roil tmsr
and hope they may secure sach srtdy
settlement a will afford them better
wages assert the election if McKin
ley would mean the perpetuatloa of war
taxes entangling alliances with -he
monarchies of Europe and colonial ex
ploitations in remote parts of the world
compelling an increase in the national
debt and enforced military service and
declare the election of Mr Bryan will
nean the salvation of the country
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted
Mr Bryan spoke in part as follows
Mr Chairman Ladies and eGntle
men I am here not because 1 am
needed but because I want to be
Not hecause you need me but because
I am glad to meet you It is not nec
essary that I should speak to you for
you have already lfstened to enough
to convince any who are not convinced
and one follows me tonight who will
convince any who may still be without
the fold
TRIBUTE TO STEVENSON
You have heard this afternoon from
my distinguished colleague on the
ticket who disputes the saying of Nes
tor when he complained that the gods
did not give all things to a man at tha
same time that the gods withheld the
vigor of youcn when they gave the wis
dom of old age I think you will agree
with me that my colleague is able to
p csan
SP 3r
combine bcth the vigor of youthjyitb
the wisdom of age
But I appreciate the work done and
being done and to be done by this as
sociation of democratic clubs and I ap
preciate the energy the enthusiasm and
the ability displayed by Mr Hearst tha
president of thi3 association I believe
in these clubs We need them We
need clubs far more than the repub
licans need clubs In fact my friends
the work of democracy being a work
for the people must be done by the
people Machinery is not sufficient
when we have but machinery alonejto
win a democratic fight - li
We need these clubs to aid -in the
wflrk nnH tn sunnlement the efforts of
Thousands of Amarcans BaUy to our naJna taeand lof
collect money to carry on our cam
paign The republican party can get
its money from the corporations which
plunder the peonle between campaigns
in re turn for the money contributed
Indianapolis Ind Special The during campaigns
morning session of the convention of
National Democratic clubs was not
called to order until 1030 ociock Gov
ernor MciMllin of Kentucky presided
The report of the committee on per
manent organization was submitted to party to raise a campaign fund you
th convention It recommended that
the following officers be elected W 11
Hearst president Max F Ihmsen sec
retay Marcus Daly treasurer
It was also recommended by the com
mittee that the executive committee of
the association which now consists of
seventeen members be increased to
forty five members a member for each
state
The convention took up the report of
the committee on permanent organiza
tion as soon as the session began and
an animated discussion followed the
recommendation of the committee to
increase the membership of the execu
tive committee It was unanimously
dcided not to increase the membrship
The balance of the report of the com
mittee on permanent organization was
adopted
MMILLIN SPEAKS
Governor McMillin of Tennessee in
taking the chair made an address in
which he said We have a great deal
of work before us The object of the
existence of this association is for the
purpose of more thorough organization
throughout the United States What I
want you to do when you go back home
is to organize organize organize till
there will be nothing but democratic
clubs everywhere No more splendid
candidate was ever nominated by the
American people than we have Yet
our enemies say that he has been bat
en once Yes and only twenty years
after Jefferson had written the Declar
ation of Independence that has freed
all of mankind that are nov free he
was beaten But four years afterward
in 1800 we saw him triumphantly elect
ed - I beg our enemies to remember
that history will repeat itself We have
just put forward a man without spot
or blemish and when the ides of o
vember come it will be recorded that
as three candidates have been defeated
and elected so the fourth vill be and
William Jennings Bryan will be pres
ident of the United States Great
cheers
L D Stevenson of Bloomingtonwest
ern representative of the National As
sociation of Democratic Clubs and son
of Adlai E Stevenson was the next
speaker He said in the course of his
address The anti imperialists today
represent the conscience of the nation
They declare that we were right whn
in beginning our war with Spain we
pledged ourselves not to be swept into
conquest and forcible aggression They
believe that President McKiuiey was
nearer the truth when he wrote for
cible annexation according to the
American code of morals would be
criminal acrirression than when a few
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NO HELP FROM TRUSTS
We cannot go to a trust and ask H
to help us because we do not expeC
to be helped We know that every
speech made by a democrat against
these trusts makes it easier ior inei
iinrm stnrul that
Mr Bryan then made a strong argu
ment against trusts As to the Amer
ican workingman he said
MILITARISM AND LABORERS
The laboring man asks for arbitra
tion and gets a lari army he asks
relief from governnv r t by i
and gets a large army he asks protec
tion from the blacklist and his answer
is a large army He asks for slracter
hours of labor in order that h may
have more time with his family and
for the development of his mind ana
his answer is a large army he asks
for representation in the president-
cabinet in order that labor may
protected and his answer Is a larga
army That is the domestic reason
which is not given and yet it is a rea
son entertained by many What is the
reason they give They say we need
it for our foreign policy but my
friends they asked for the army be
fore the American people had ever de
cided upon a foreign policy that made
a large army necessary
In December 1893 when the presi
dent asked for his army the treaty had
not yet been signed but its term
were understood When the republican
congress voted to raise the army to
100000 the treaty had been signed and
no arm was raised against this nation
anywhere in the world But the
American people had never voted for
a colonial policy up to this time the
American people have never voted for
a colonial policy and yet the repub
lican party is pledged to a large army
TO EXPLOIT PHILIPPINES
What does it want with it It in
tends to exploit the Philippine islands
and if you want to understand the
reasons for a large army read the pros
pectus issued by the Philippine Lumber
and Development company You will
find at the head of the company as
president a republican member of con
gress who is the chairman of tho
army committee of the house of rep
resentatives and another republican
congressman is attorney for the com
pany and the prospectus shows that al
ready valuable timber lands have been
secured and the prospectus also ex
plains that the labor problem Is easily
solved because there Is a quantity of
Chinese labor there that can be em
ployed for from 50 to 75 cents a day In
Mexican money What do you want
an army for To hold the Philippines
until they are developed by syndicates
headed by republican politicians The
American people have not yet decided
in favor of Imperialism
You find that now the republicans
are trying to hide behind first one sub
terfuge and then another They say
now that the reason we are in the
Philippines the reason our boys are
dying the reason a large army is nec
essary the reason we cannot come
home is because I helped to ratify the
treaty
If it is the hand of God that takes
us to the Philippine islands why da
the republicans want to lay- it on to a
democrat If it is well to be there if
it is a part of the divine mission why
dont they defend the being there They
claim to be silent partners with the
Almighty but the trouble Is that they
n ti noisp ana tnus iar iuc
AimiViitv has been the silent partner
vt v ia wrmll trn If it
i iiw Liirv aa y u ca w - -
months later he forgets these words were not for the democratic party iney
and boastingly cries Who dares pull
say that the Filipinos would lay down
their arms but for tne nope iney nave
that I may be elected
ANSWER TO REPUBLICANS
My friends whenever a republican
tells you that you tell him that the
colonists fought the same battle that
the Filipinos are fighting and hat they
did It nearly a hundred years before I
was born
Tell them that the republic of South
Africa fought the same fight before
this question ever arose in American
politics
Tell them that the Cubans waged
a war for thirty years to secure the
same rights before there was ever an
anti imperialist party in this country
or ever need for such a party
Tell them that the Filipinos issued
a Declaration of independence
prn arl after mirs before the Question
f imperialism ever entered into
can politics
My friends they do me too much
honor when they say that I am re-
sponsible for the Filipinos hatred of
foreign domination If they have not
forgotten the teachings of Abraham
Lincoln they would know that he said
it was not a party or a man but God
himself who planted in the human heart
the love of liberty which no republican
party can take away
JUDGE WES70YER IS PLAIN
Reasons Why He Would Not Co to
Hear Roosevelt -
Alliance Neb Special Today la
Roosevelt day in Alliance Judge West
over yesterday said he would adjourn
court in order to give all who wished
an opportunity to go and hear Roose
velt but he said he would no go across
the street to see or hear him and
upon being asked why he said
I have no use for any man who will
attempt to steal glory from the colored
troops wno saved him and his men
from being practically wiped out as he
claimed in his magazine article which
was published in Scribners in April
and which was denied by the officers
who commanded the troops I might
also say that I was brought up on a
farm in Nebraska and I cannot conde
scend to go and hear any person who
insulted the farmers of this country as
Roosevelt did in his book entitled
Ranch Life and Hunting Trail These
are just a few of the reasons why I
will refuse to see or hear him said
Judge Westeover but I might give
several others just as cogent as those
I mentioned and I believe that is the
way the majority of the American peo
ple feel who studied the history of tbia
egotistical ass
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